Landscape as Protagonist: Adelaide Villa by Mim Design.Mim Design has reimagined a grand Victorian Villa in Melbourne’s bayside suburb of Brighton with a thoughtful contemporary addition, drawing lush pockets of landscape— designed in collaboration with Kate Patterson Landscapes—into the...
Half-Old and Half-New: Ignacia Guest House in Mexico City by Andrés Gutiérrez and Factor Eficiencia.Ignacia Guest House shares its name with its once-upon-a-time housekeeper (who looked after it for over 40 years), but its spirit is decidedly its own. The Mexico City guest house, which opened its doors in 2017 and occupied half a...
Familiar and Futuristic: Pidapipo Laboratorio Fitzroy by Dion Hall.Melbourne’s beloved Pidapipo has a new Italian dessert destination in the heart of Fitzroy. With interior architecture by Dion Hall, Laboratorio is enveloped in stainless steel, taking cues from the high glamour of the 70s, in this...
Queens Park House by Daytrip Studio.Finding the building in a complete state of disrepair, the owners of Queens Park House in West London looked to Daytrip Studio to turn a series of bedsits into a single family home. Today, its Edwardian frontage stands as the only...
Pa.te.os in Melides: Four Contemporary Holiday Houses by Manuel Aires Mateus.Fancy yourself a getaway? Pa.te.os by Manuel Aires Mateus beautifully sculpts four individual houses that embraces the topography of Portugal’s Alentenjo. A site that has plenty of awe on offer, each building embraces views of the hills...
California Dreaming: Richmond House by Studio Gram.While embracing references to Palm Springs architecture and a garden-focused aesthetic from sunny California, this South Australian home by Studio Gram is, according to the architects “everything that an Australian home should...
Geometry & Colour Reign Supreme Inside India Madhavi’s Reinvention of Villa Medici in Rome.India Mahdavi’s artistic direction and renovation of the historical rooms at Villa Medici in Rome proposes a new approach to the interiors, where geometry and colour play a fundamental role and contribute to renewing the spirit of the...
A Roman Ruin Turned Family Home in Granada by Ignacio Quemada, John Hoyland & Victor Cadene.The development of turning these once four separate 15th-century Moorish homes into a luscious, dozen-bedroom holiday nest in Andalusia with glorious views of Alhambra, unearthed more than a few surprises. In the basement, the design team...
A New Chapter: Cafe & Boutique in Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen by MEE Studio.Having undergone many transformations over the centuries, Nikolaj Kunsthal church in Copenhagen—built in 1912 and dating all the way back to the early 1200s—has been adopted as a contemporary art space since 1981. With the help of...